Uluru, Australia

Wednesday, December 13, 2028

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Uluru, Australia

Meteor shower

Geminids

Best around 2:45 AM

Very LowExcellent
9:00 PM Dark enough
2:45 AM Best
3:44 AM Moonrise
4:19 AM Too light
Estimate
~78/hour
from a dark spot here
Radiant climbs to
32°
Under a perfect sky
150/hour
Moonlight
No interference
Speed
35 km/s

Where they come from: Asteroid 3200 Phaethon

One of only two major showers from an asteroid, not a comet: 3200 Phaethon, a 'rock comet' that sheds dust when it passes close to the Sun. Its dust is denser than most, which is why Geminids are bright and slow.

The estimate is how many you might really see from a dark spot here, allowing for how high the shower climbs and for moonlight. "Under a perfect sky" is the best case. The bar also counts the forecast cloud at the best time, so a clouded-out night sits at the bottom, as does rain on the radar now.

The strongest shower of the year, and you can watch it most of the night.

That morning

Sunrise

5:49 AM

5:49 AM

Clears the hills at 5:46 AM, 3 min after sunrise

5:23 AM Blue hour
5:49 AM Sunrise
6:22 AM Golden hour ends

Event

First day of Hanukkah

First day of Hanukkah in Uluru - sunset at 7:30 PM

Evening from 7:30 PM

Sunset and evening sky: not known yet

Sunset
7:30 PM
Sun toward NNW
Cloud this evening
Not known yet
Rain chance
Not known yet
This evening
Moon
16% lit
Rises 3:00 AM
Where the Sun is
NNW, 88° up
at 12:45 PM

Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, lasts eight days from the 25th of Kislev in the Hebrew calendar - in late November or December. It remembers the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem after the Maccabees' revolt in the second century BCE, when, the story goes, one day's oil kept the menorah burning for eight.

Like every Jewish day, it begins at sundown: the first candle is lit on the evening before the first day, and one more each night after, lit from the shammash, the helper candle set apart from the rest.

Sunset

7:30 PM

7:30 PM

Behind the hills at 7:19 PM, 11 min before sunset

Too far ahead for a weather forecast. These are the sun's own times - they will not change.

6:57 PM Golden hour
7:30 PM Sunset
7:56 PM Blue hour ends

Moon

Waning crescent

11% lit

2:55 AM – 4:43 PM

ESE WSW
2:55 AM Moonrise
3:14 AM 4°
9:47 AM Highest, 84°
4:24 PM 4°
4:43 PM Moonset

Between the two 4° marks the Moon is clear of haze and most of what stands on the horizon.

Timetable

  • Moonrise 2:56 AM
  • Morning blue hour 5:23 AM–5:49 AM
  • Sunrise 5:49 AM
  • Morning golden hour 5:49 AM–6:22 AM
  • Morning best color 6:00 AM
  • Moonset 4:44 PM
  • Evening golden hour 6:57 PM–7:30 PM
  • Evening best color 7:13 PM
  • Sunset 7:30 PM
  • Evening blue hour 7:30 PM–7:56 PM
  • Fully dark 9:00 PM–4:20 AM
  • Dark, no Moon 9:00 PM–3:50 AM

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